Example sentences of "[pron] [be] [prep] [noun sg] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Obviously , as erm I am in fact the local member referred to in er in the reports and erm it 's quite true that erm , it 's rare with some of these erm parking proposals that you get so much positive response from the residents but this has been very evident . |
| 2 | Years later Moira and I were on board the Queen Elizabeth II as guest lecturers when she sailed from Hong Kong to Acapulco in Mexico as part of that year 's world cruise . |
| 3 | While I was on holiday the clinic tested a blood sample without my permission and established that it was HIV positive . |
| 4 | I noticed when I was at school the other day . |
| 5 | Never mind Tuesday I was at placement the whole time and we sort of |
| 6 | Peter confesses : ‘ I was in love the instant we met . ’ |
| 7 | I was in bed the whole week . |
| 8 | Second , even if the major private capitalist enterprises were nationalised this would not abolish the problem of allocating resources between the kind of ‘ infrastructural ’ provision , and social services , which are already within the public sector in Britain and those areas of commodity production which are at present the domain of ‘ private enterprise ’ . |
| 9 | Being part of the natural world and a proper object of scientific study , X is predictable on the basis of X 's preferences and information , which are in turn the result of X 's nature and nurture . |
| 10 | The two subgenres of popfiction , " romances and thrillers " , which are in essence the subject of the book , are also regularly measured against each other in a series of detailed comparisons . |
| 11 | Of these two pads , the first normally consists of the Prologue , or exposition scenes ; the Entrance of the Chorus ( Parodos ) : and what is now generally called the Agon , a fierce ‘ contest ’ between the representatives of two parties or principles , which are in effect the hero and villain of the whole piece . |
| 12 | Using her clearance codes , Reynard skipped nimbly into the data terraces he visualised as a vast graveyard , but which were in fact the accumulated records of all known people in Arcady , all employees , current and late , of Tech-Green , all public workers in the country , all suspect characters and a host of other subsections of humanity . |
| 13 | Recognising the success of this idea the FAA , which is of course the authority responsible for enforcing aviation regulations and imposing penalties in the USA , took the bold step of seeking out a suitable agency , totally separate from the FAA , that was technically competent to administer an anonymous type of incident-reporting system . |
| 14 | We suppose that this person takes it that the rule he learnt demands this continuation rather than the one we favour ( which is of course the right one ) . |
| 15 | Some scholars have argued that despite the front quality of OE /ae/ , ME a was a back vowel ( or perhaps merely a fully low vowel : it is not always clear what is meant by ‘ back vowel ’ ) , and on this basis have postulated a change around 1600 from a back ( or low ) value to front-raised /ae/ , which is of course the modern conservative RP value . |
| 16 | The point is that the whole idea of substance as an entity breaks down ; which is of course the opposite of what Spinoza originally intended . |
| 17 | You see , my dear , we had a little difficulty over which should adorn the top of the tree , the star of Bethlehem which is of course the only proper thing as well as being the only thing countenanced by the Rector , or an immensely glittering and unsuitable fairy doll someone was so ill-judged as to give to Helen . |
| 18 | And English Language Teaching at Longman which is of course the biggest er biggest profit contributor erm their blueprint sale is expected to exceed nine hundred thousand this year . |
| 19 | They always want to know why it was built , which is of course the one question I ca n't answer . |
| 20 | which is of course the little junction between the skin and the hair . |
| 21 | The reason for not accepting what people call the social chapter , which is in reality the imposition of labour laws that would damage our competitiveness , is that we intend to keep our competitiveness and we are not prepared to lose our competitiveness against Japan and the United States , even though that is the express policy of the Labour party . |
| 22 | Among the design features are a self-emptying rubbish bin with an intricate hinge mechanism ; a two-level three-stage fan-assisted microwave on a chest-high swivel , which can be concealed in a malachite unit ; and the figure of a negro slave , carved out of ironwood , which is in fact the cold tap on the kitchen sink . |
| 23 | When this happens , the iteration has gone far enough , and we can take p = cs , when q is determined from the second of equations ( 6 ) , which is in fact the same as ( 4 ) . |
| 24 | Which is in fact the new newest thing in fourteen eighty . |
| 25 | Also , the land which stretches back to Rockhill Farm from Swingswang on the opposite side of that road is all part and parcel of the County Council smallholdings , and only two fields away they sold off a piece of land a few years ago which has now been developed on to the frontage of the Banbury Road , which is in fact the Cromwell Business Park . |
| 26 | Next door to the chip shop is a sports shop , which is in effect the ground floor of the building we occupy . |
| 27 | Now we now come to resolution two , which is in effect the appointment of the , er Honorary Officers . |
| 28 | We are told that he could pray in both Frankish and Latin , which was of course the official church language , although this reflects his facility with languages in general rather than any excess of devotion . |
| 29 | It has absorbed the Eastern Red Pied of eastern Liège , which was in effect the MRY in Eupen and Malmédy . |
| 30 | His study , which was in fact the second bedroom , was acquiring an important , even scholarly , appearance . |